TO THE ARTICLE "IN THE TAIL OF THE MONARCHIST BOURGEOISIE"
in the coming decade will amount to no less than 300 million rubles
per year. The State debt of Russia, which according to the
author's calculation now reaches 8 billion rubles, must grow
within five years to 12 billion. There is nothing with which to cover
the interest on loans, for no one will give Russia money now. The
parallel between Russia in 1905 and France under Louis XVI is
striking. Rudolf Martin urgently advises Germany to get rid of
(if possible, to America) Russian loans as quickly as possible, into
which up to one and a half billion rubles of German money has been
invested. European bourgeoisie hastens to extricate itself, foreseeing
the inevitability of Russian collapse.

Exact title of the book: "Die Zukunft Russlands und Japans". Soll
Deutschland die Zeche bezahlen? Von Rudolf Martin, Regierungsrat im Kaiserli-
chen Statistischen Amt. Berlin, Carl Heymanns Verlag. 1905" (VIII + 258 pp.).

The article "In the Tail of the Monarchist Bourgeoisie or at the
Head of the Revolutionary Proletariat and Peasantry" was published
in No. 45 of *Proletariat* from September 5 (August 23), 1905. (see
Works, vol. VIII, pp. 466–475). In Lenin Collection V (pp. 343–359) are pub-
lished 8 documents representing successive stages of Lenin's work
on the article. The document printed below is a supplement to these
documents, representing a plan for developing one of the essential
moments of the article. In addition to the aforementioned article (see
especially Works VIII, p. 469) Lenin used the material of this document
also in the article "A Meeting of Friends" (Works, vol. VIII, p. 244).

III

*TO THE ARTICLE "IN THE TAIL OF THE MONARCHIST BOURGEOISIE
OR AT THE HEAD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PROLETARIAT
AND PEASANTRY".

[September, before the 5th, 1905. Geneva.]

S.S. in No. 75 of *Liberation*.¹

1) "Radicals" —
on the system of elections
"Moderates" — on the expansion of the rights of the Duma.²

* — more. Ed.